(starting from the back)

10- Diane receiving her award in the last episode of Cheers
9- Diane's appearance after going "biking with Andy Andy" in the first season classic, Diane's Perfect Date
8- Ralph Kramden in the 99,000 dollar answer
7- "I'm out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"- The Contest episode of Seinfeld
6- "Job Switching."- The Candy Factory scene.
5- Vitavetavegimen
4- Elaine's revealing to Jerry of what she knew about his panty remark to his girlfriend while having sex, at the end of "The Cheever Letters."
3- "Chuckle's Bites The Dust"- Mary cracking up during the funeral.
2- "The Dick Van Dyke Show"- "That's my Boy?" When the parents that might've been involved in hospital confusion when Ritchie was born arrive at the front door of the Petries, and as they walk in, Rob and Laura are in shock to discover their race.
1- Sammy kisses Archie.... WHAT ELSE?

Oh and one more, "WHAT DOES A YELLOW LIGHT MEAN!" :lol: :happyface


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Well, if you want to get technical, The I Love Lucy episode abt the chickens laying eggs. When Lucy did the tango w/Ricky and well, you all know what happens. That (the audience laughing ) is recorded as being the longest laugh recorded on television.

You've pretty much got them all, although I wouldn't consider #10 one of the biggest studio audience laughs.

"What does the yellow light mean?" is the single funniest moment of any show, ever.

Yeah I know, but it seemed that Carla's reaction got a PRETTY long laugh. Irene, I dont remember reading that about the Lucy and the chickens episode. Last I heard, TECHNICALLY the longest laugh ever recorded was #2 on the list, when the Peter's or whatever they're called walked through the front door, but I figured more people would agree with the number one I ended up choosing.


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It may not be one of the hugest audience laughs ever, but I seem to remember it as being one of the hugest on Cheers.

In a fourth season episode, (the name escapes me at the moment), the trademark "Normism"....

Sam: Hey, what's happening Norm?

Norm: Well it's a dog-eat-dog world Sammy, and I'm wearing milkbone underwear.

Courtesy of ANSWERS.COM
Reportedly, the longest laugh in any sitcom ever - 65 seconds - was heard in the episode Lucy Does the Tango, during which Lucy - her jacket filled with raw eggs - slams into Ricky


I searched other sites as well that give Lucy the record for longest laugh. Sorry. I am a devoted Lucy Fan.

That may be the longest laugh that made it into the final cut of the episode, but I've heard from several different sources that in the "That's My Boy" episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show they stood there for over ten minutes waiting for the audience to stop laughing.

Oh dont get the wrong idea Irene, I'm a diehard Lucy fan, I'm doing this not by what I THINK are the funniest moments in television history, I'm doing this by what the majority of TV lovers and historians believe. Yeah barwars, I remember that about they had to wait for the audience to stop laughing.


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... but incidently, these are my picks.

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It may not be one of the hugest audience laughs ever, but I seem to remember it as being one of the hugest on Cheers.

In a fourth season episode, (the name escapes me at the moment), the trademark "Normism"....

Sam: Hey, what's happening Norm?

Norm: Well it's a dog-eat-dog world Sammy, and I'm wearing milkbone underwear.


Definately sums up Norm! There was one I liked slightly better, I just cant picture it at the moment.

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No prob. Just throwing in my two cents. But even though that is the cut that made it to television, it too had a very long laugh going on in the audience, way more than what was shown on t.v. So I guess these two shows have that distinction.

Definately sums up Norm! There was one I liked slightly better, I just cant picture it at the moment.

Me too, my personal favorite:

Sam: What'ya up to Norm?

Norm: My ideal weight if I were 11 feet tall.


:lol: :lol: Just typing it out makes me laugh out loud.

Yeah. By the by barwars, I def. agree that WHAT DOES A YELLOW LIGHT MEAN! is the single funniest moment by far of any television series. What every other scene of every other show should be judged by.

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Yeah. By the by barwars, I def. agree that WHAT DOES A YELLOW LIGHT MEAN! is the single funniest moment by far of any television series. What every other scene of every other show should be judged by.

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True. That scene was soooo hilarious the first time I watched it. And ever since then, in reruns it is hysterical. I ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

"What does the yellow light mean?" is the single funniest moment of any show, ever.

AMEN to that... "Taxi" is not even one of my favorite shows but I DIE laughing everytime I see that episode

"whhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt dooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss thhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloowwwwwwwwwwwww liiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhtttttttt meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaan?"

"whhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt dooooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssss thhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee yeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllloowwwwwwwwwwwww liiiiiiiiiiggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhtttttttt meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaan?"
OMG, so funny. I had to really read it slow!!!! And then I just lost it!! ROTFLMAO

For my own self, biggest laugh TV ever got out of me was in Cheers ...it went something like this ( im doing this from memory, so it might not be an exact quote ):
Frasier: You know, you can catch a lot more flies with sugar, than you can with vinegar...
Woody: I dont mean to interrupt Dr Crane, but, youll catch the most with dead squirrels!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: < Still the biggest laugh i ever got on TV ^_^

Speaking of Cheers, the scene in that Thanksgiving episode where "Birdzilla" is cooking and they have that food fight!!!!! that one gets me going!!!!

I dunno why, but the "Moors/Moops" scene with George and the Bubble Boy in the Seinfeld episode "Bubble Boy" ranks up there with me too.

I dunno why, but the "Moors/Moops" scene with George and the Bubble Boy in the Seinfeld episode "Bubble Boy" ranks up there with me too.
OH OKAY, NOW SEINFELD... Thee episode abt masturbation!!!! When Kramer walks in and slams his $$$ on the kitchen counter and says: "I'm out". Totally funny. The whole episode is funny. I love that episode.

OH OKAY, NOW SEINFELD... Thee episode abt masturbation!!!! When Kramer walks in and slams his $$$ on the kitchen counter and says: "I'm out". Totally funny. The whole episode is funny. I love that episode.

"The Contest", "The Pilot", "The Bubble Boy", "The Outing", "The Airport". Jerry and Larry really hit them out of the park during the fourth season. So many episodes that are just laugh out loud hysterical. Some of the episodes like the early NBC themed ones and the ones with Jerry's parents weren't the best, but then when that season took off, it ruled!

I remember seeing Jean Stapleton on a short-lived talk show years ago (it was the EXTREMELY short-lived "Sammy & company" in the 70s-hosted by Sammy Davis of all people! :rolleyes: For those who don't remember it, be glad you don't. It was AWFUL!!! :crazy: ) talking about "All in the Family" and she said that the scene where Sammy Davis kissed Archie was THE longest laugh in the entire series (this was-I think-1976 that she said it) and it went on so long that they had to cut it down after they taped the show.

I love Taxi and wholeheartedly believe that the "What does a yellow light mean" scene is one of the funniest scenes ever. The audience just screams with laughter.

Another scene that I remember got a huge audience reaction was from the episode of Frasier called "Are You Being Served", from the fourth season. Niles is practically hysterical and has gone into the bathroom, Frasier is standing by the door, trying to calm him down, and suddenly he, Martin and Daphne hear a sound like a gunshot. They stand there, horrified for a moment, and then the door opens and Niles walks out covered from head to foot in shaving foam.

I also loved the food-fight in the Cheers episode "Thanksgiving Orphans."

after watching disc one of Roseanne last night, I was hungry for more comedy, so I stuck in the infamous Taxi episode because I knew it'd keep me rolling.

I think the entire episode is hysterical. "Whaaaaaaattttt dooooooooooeeeeesss aaaaaaaaaaa yeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllloooooowwwwwwwww llllliiiiiiiiiiigggggggggggghhhhhtttttt meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaan?" is the most famous part, but the whole episode consists of some of the funniest moments in the shows history and comedy altogether. From "I fought in that war so bums like you could protest, what do you have to say about that?" "thank you" to Rev Jim putting the tranquilizer in Louie's coffee and then they duet Moonlight Bay to "eyes? two", the entire episode is sheer comic brilliance.

I remember seeing Jean Stapleton.....talking about "All in the Family" and she said that the scene where Sammy Davis kissed Archie was THE longest laugh in the entire series (this was-I think-1976 that she said it) and it went on so long that they had to cut it down after they taped the show.
That was a huge audience laugh. Not a laugh, but on All In Family, the audience cheered like crazy when Edith whacked her would be rapist with a pan and escaped.

That may be the longest laugh that made it into the final cut of the episode, but I've heard from several different sources that in the "That's My Boy" episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show they stood there for over ten minutes waiting for the audience to stop laughing.
I've read that many times myself.

OMG how could we forget that Carol Burnett "GONE WITH THE WIND" satire!!!! The curtains!!!!

Mama's Family: When they show the old folks home and they are playing musical chairs with people in wheelchairs and the song that they are using is the theme from CHARIOTS OF FIRE!!!!!!!!! lol

OMG how could we forget that Carol Burnett "GONE WITH THE WIND" satire!!!! The curtains!!!!
"Frankly my dear, i dont gi...."( slams door ) "I dont GI????" :lol:
Yeah Irene, that was the funniest thing they EVER did on the CB show

There were so many skits on Carol Burnett where they themselves were trying to keep from laughing, and it just made it that much funnier.

another scene:

when Roseanne and Jackie's father die and Jackie's on the phone with a relative who is hard of hearing, that scene was quite priceless and one of the most hysterical moments in the entire series.

another scene:

when Roseanne and Jackie's father die and Jackie's on the phone with a relative who is hard of hearing, that scene was quite priceless and one of the most hysterical moments in the entire series.
My daughter and I laugh EVERY SINGLE TIME AT THAT SCENE!!!! Whenever that episode is on either I tell her or she tells me "that episode with Jackie on the phone is on!!!"

It's hard to think about sitcoms as a whole, but one of the biggest laughs I remember for a particular series was on Friends when Joey enters the apartment wearing all of Chandler's clothes in The One Where No One's Ready.

This is a thread for posting your top 10, so please everyone, if you can, try to make some lists, I wanta hear from you!


They could be repeats of what I or others who posted said.

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how about the "It's A Miserable Life" episode of The Golden Girls? The one with ol' Freda Claxton. To me that episode is up there with "Rev. Jim: A Space Oddity" and "The Contest" as a laugh-a-minute

Three's Company-When Jack kept falling off the hammock in A Camping We Will Go and also the the misunderstanding where Jack & Chrissy are puting up a shower curtain and Furley is listening to them

Taxi-When Louie and Rev.Jim singing Moon Light Bay and also when Rev.Jim kept asking "what does a yellow light mean" slower everytime Bobby kept saying "slow down" in Reverend Jim: a Space Odyssey

All In The Family-When Archie got drunk in the cellar and thought the black guy coming down to get him out of the cellar was God and said "for give me Lord,the Jeffersons was right" in Archie In The Cellar